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Contact

Department of Philosophy
314 Moses Hall #2390
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-2390
Email: kolodny@berkeley.edu
Phone (Skype): (510) 984-3533

Positions

University of California, Berkeley
Professor of Philosophy, from Fall 2013
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Fall 2009–Spring 2013
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Fall 2005–Spring 2009
Harvard University
Assistant Professor, Fall 2003–Spring 2005

Other Professional Affiliations

Philosophical Gourmet Report
Advisory Board, since 2024
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Editorial Board, since 2019
Philosopher's Annual
Member, Nominating Board, since 2016
Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy
Member, Board of Advisors, since 2016
Philosophy and Public Affairs
Editorial Board, since 2019
Associate Editor, Fall 2010–Fall 2018
Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI)
Affiliate, since Fall 2018
New York Institute of Philosophy
Member, Project on New Directions in Political Philosophy, led by Samuel Scheffler, Fall 2010–Spring 2013
Princeton University
Member, Young Ethicists Network, led by Michael Smith, Liz Harman, and Sarah McGrath, Spring 2012–Fall 2013
Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences
Harsanyi Fellow, Summer 2013
Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences
Research Associate, Summer 2004
Funded by an Australian Research Council grant awarded to Michael Smith for the project, "Reasons and Rationality"

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Philosophy, 2003

M.A., University of Oxford, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (papers in Philosophy and Economics), First Class, 1996

B.A., Williams College, Philosophy, 1994

Books

  1. The Pecking Order: Social Hierarchy as a Philosophical Problem (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2023).

Edited Books

  1. The Possibility of Philosophical Understanding: Essays for Barry Stroud, co-edited with Jason Bridges and Wai-hung Wong (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011)
  2. Death and the Afterlife, by Samuel Scheffler, with an introduction by Niko Kolodny and commentary by Harry Frankfurt, Niko Kolodny, Seana Shiffrin, and Susan Wolf (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).

Book Chapters

  1. "An Objection to Workplace Hierarchy Itself?" in Working as Equals edited by Julian Jonker and Grant Rozeboom (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023).
  2. "Saving Posterity From a Worse Fate," in Ethics and Existence: The Legacy of Derek Parfit, edited by Jeff McMahan, Tim Campbell, James Goodrich, and Ketan Ramakrishnan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).
  3. "Democratic Law as Medium and Message," in Seana Shiffrin, Democratic Law, with an introduction by Hannah Ginsborg and commentary by Niko Kolodny, Annie Stilz, and Richard Brooks (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021).
  4. "Being Under the Power of Others," in Yiftah Elizar and Genevieve Rousseliere, Republicanism and Democracy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)
  5. "Instrumental Reasons," in Daniel Star, ed, The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).
  6. "Help Wanted: Subordinates," in Elizabeth Anderson, Private Government, with an introduction by Stephen Macedo and commentary by David Bromwich, Tyler Cowen, Ann Hughes, and Niko Kolodny (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017), pp. 99–107.
  7. "Introduction," in Sam Scheffler, Death and the Afterlife, with an introduction by Niko Kolodny and commentary by Harry Frankfurt, Niko Kolodny, Seana Shiffrin, and Susan Wolf (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
  8. "That I Should Die and Others Live," in Sam Scheffler, Death and the Afterlife, with an introduction by Niko Kolodny and commentary by Harry Frankfurt, Niko Kolodny, Seana Shiffrin, and Susan Wolf (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
  9. "The Quest to Understand Philosophy," co-authored with Jason Bridges, in Jason Bridges, Niko Kolodny, and Wai-hung Wong, eds, The Possibility of Philosophical Understanding: Essays for Barry Stroud (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).
  10. "Aims as Reasons," in Samuel Freeman, Rahul Kumar, and R. Jay Wallace, eds, Reasons and Recognition: Essays on the Philosophy of T.M. Scanlon (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).
  11. "Which Relationships Justify Partiality? General Considerations and Problem Cases," in Brian Feltham and John Cottingham, eds, Partiality and Impartiality: Morality, Special Relationships and the Wider World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).

Journal Articles

  1. "Is One More Powerful with Numbers on One's Side?" co-authored with Sean Ingham, Journal of Political Philosophy (forthcoming).
  2. "Partners and Patients: A Revised Grammar of Social Power," Political Studies 71:1 (2023).
  3. "Towards an Analysis of Social Hierarchy," Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 23:2 (2022).
  4. "Discrimination, Subordination, and Pluralism," Jurisprudence 12:4 (2021).
  5. "What, If Anything, Is Wrong with Gerrymandering?" University of San Diego Law Journal 56:4 (2019).
  6. "Why Equality of Treatment and Opportunity Might Matter," Philosophical Studies 176 (2019).
  7. "Standing and the Sources of Liberalism" Politics, Philosophy, Economics 17:2 (2018).
  8. "What Makes Threats Wrong?" Analytic Philosophy 58:2 (2017).
  9. "Dynamics of Affirmation," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 92:3 (2016).
  10. "Political Rule and Its Discontents," Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy 2 (2016).
  11. "Rule Over None II: Social Equality and the Justification of Democracy," Philosophy and Public Affairs 42:4 (2014).
  12. "Rule Over None I: What Justifies Democracy?" Philosophy and Public Affairs 42:3 (2014).
  13. "Foreword," Harvest Moon: The Berkeley Undergraduate Philosophy Journal, 2011 New Crop Prize Edition (2012).
  14. "Raz's Nexus," Jurisprudence 2:2 (2011).
  15. "Scanlon's Investigation: The Relevance of Intent to Permissibility," Analytic Philosophy 52:2 (2011).
  16. "Ifs and Oughts," co-authored with John MacFarlane, Journal of Philosophy 107:3 (2010).
  17. "The Explanation of Amour-Propre," Philosophical Review 119:2 (2010).
  18. "Which Relationships Justify Partiality? The Case of Parents and Children," Philosophy and Public Affairs 38:1 (2010).
  19. "Comments on Munoz-Darde's 'Liberty's Chains'," Supplemental Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 83:1 (2009)
  20. "Reply to Bridges," Mind 118:470 (2009).
  21. "The Myth of Practical Consistency," European Journal of Philosophy 16:3 (2008)
  22. "Why Be Disposed to Be Coherent?," Ethics 118:3 (2008)
  23. "How Does Coherence Matter?," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 107:1 (2007)
  24. "State or Process Requirements?," Mind 116:462 (2007)
  25. "Why Be Rational?," Mind 114:455 (2005) (German translation in Christoph Halbig and Tim Henning, eds, Die neue Kritik der instrumentellen Vernunft (Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 2012))
  26. "Love as Valuing a Relationship," Philosophical Review 112:2 (2003)
  27. "Promises and Practices Revisited," co-authored with R. Jay Wallace, Philosophy and Public Affairs 31:2 (2003)
  28. "Do Associative Duties Matter?," Journal of Political Philosophy 10:3 (2002)
  29. "The Ethics of Cryptonormativism: A Defense of Foucault's Evasions," Philosophy and Social Criticism 22:5 (1996)

Work in Progress

  1. "Privacy and Its Violation"

Encyclopedia Entries

  1. "Instrumental Rationality," co-authored with John Brunero in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  2. "Objectivity in Ethics," in Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Second Edition, ed. Donald Borchert (Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006)
  3. Addendum to "Love," in Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Second Edition, ed. Donald Borchert (Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006)

Reviews

  1. Christopher H. Achen and Larry M. Bartels, Democracy for Realists (Princeton University Press, 2016) and Jason Brennan, Against Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2016) in Boston Review February 17, 2017.
  2. R. Jay Wallace, Philip Pettit, Samuel Scheffler, and Michael Smith, Reason and Value: Themes from the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004) in Mind 115:458 (2006)
  3. Harry G. Frankfurt, The Reasons of Love (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004) in Journal of Philosophy 103:1 (2006)

Talks

  1. Whitehead Lectures, Harvard University, April 2028
  2. Passmore Lecture, Australian National University, AUSTRALIA, Summer 2025
  3. Colloquium, University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA, Summer 2025
  4. Jurisprudence Lecture, UNITED KINGDOM, Summer 2025
  5. Colloquium, Indiana University, Spring 2025
  6. Keynote Lecture, AGENT Conference, University of Texas, Austin, Spring 2025
  7. "Should AI Satisfy Our Preferences?" Guest Zoom Lecture, Sungkyunkwan University, SOUTH KOREA, Fall 2024
  8. "Puzzles of Consent," Colloquium, Brown University, Fall 2024
  9. "The Pecking Order: An Overview and Second Thoughts" and "Replies," Conference on The Pecking Order, University of Minho, PORTUGAL, Fall 2024
  10. Comments on Lea Schroeder, "Epictetus on Practical Disagreement and Agent-Relativity," Ancient Metaethics Conference, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, GERMANY, Summer 2024
  11. "Replies," THINC Conference on The Pecking Order, University of Tromsø, NORWAY, Summer 2024
  12. ""Replies," Workshop on The Pecking Order, Hosted by the UCL Institute for Human Rights and the UCL Quain Center of Jurisprudence, University College London, UNITED KINGDOM, Summer 2024
  13. "Privacy and Its Violation," Shearman Lectures, University College London, UNITED KINGDOM, Summer 2024
  14. "Reflections on Privacy," Keynote Lecture, POLEMO conference, Central European University, Vienna, AUSTRIA, Spring, 2024
  15. "Reflections on Privacy," Workshop on Privacy, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, GERMANY, Spring 2024
  16. Discussion with a reading group on The Pecking Order, by Zoom, University of British Columbia, CANADA, Spring 2024
  17. "The Pecking Order: An Overview and Second Thoughts," Keynote Lecture, Equality and Social Hierarchies Conference, Freie University Berlin, GERMANY, Spring 2024
  18. "Reflections on Privacy," Tuesday Colloquium, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, GERMANY, Spring 2024
  19. "Reflections on Privacy," Roseman Lecture, University of Toronto, CANADA, Spring 2024
  20. "Privacy and Its Violation," Hempel Lectures, Princeton University, Spring 2024
  21. "Reflections on Privacy," Colloquium, University of Bielefeld, GERMANY
  22. "Reflections on Privacy," Colloquium, Humboldt University Berlin, GERMANY
  23. Author Meets Critics Session on The Pecking Order, Pacific APA, Spring 2023, with Richard Arneson, Pamela Hieronymi, and Sophia Moreau as critics.
  24. Discussion with a seminar on The Pecking Order, by Zoom, Northeastern University, Spring 2023
  25. Discussion with a seminar on The Pecking Order, by Zoom, UCLA, Spring 2023
  26. "What Others Think of You, Lecture I" Monthly Seminar in Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy, Australian National University, AUSTRALIA, Fall 2022
  27. Comment on Arash Abizadeh, "Power and Domination: An International Research Workshop," McGill University, CANADA, Summer 2022.
  28. "Towards an Analysis of Social Hierarchy," University of San Diego Law School, Fall 2021
  29. Keynote lecture, "Working as Equals" Workshop at Saint Mary's College of California, Spring, 2021. (Co-sponsored by the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the Wharton School and the Elfenworks Center for Responsible Business at Saint Mary's.)
  30. Workshop on The Pecking Order, USC Spring 2021
  31. Workshop on None Above, NYU, Fall 2020
  32. Keynote lecture, Conference in Legal and Political Philosophy, Torcuato Di Tella University, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA, Postponed
  33. Brigham Young University, Postponed
  34. Excerpts from Equality and Rule, Conference on Discrimination and Subordination, University of Toronto, CANADA, Fall 2019
  35. Comments on Sophia Moreau, Faces of Inequality, University of Toronto, CANADA, Fall 2019
  36. Excerpts from Equality and Rule, Legal Theory Workshop, University of Toronto, CANADA, Fall 2019
  37. "Reasons for Which One X-ed," Keynote Lecture, Conference on Normativity, University of Cardiff, UNITED KINGDOM, Summer 2019
  38. "Saving Posterity from a Worse Fate," Keynote Lecture, Society for Applied Philosophy, University of Cardiff, UNITED KINGDOM, Summer 2019
  39. "Principles of Equality and Claims on Institutions" New Directions in Social Justice Theorizing, UC San Diego, Spring 2019
  40. Panelist for "Preferences: Uncertainty, Existence, Plasticity," Center for Human-Compatible Artifical Intelligence 3rd Annual Conference, Spring 2019
  41. "What, If Anything, Is Wrong with Gerrymandering?" Travails of Democracy Conference, University of San Diego Law School, Spring 2019
  42. "Equality and Rule," Work in Progress Talk, UC Berkeley, Spring 2019
  43. "Favoritism and Equality," APA author meets critics session on T.M. Scanlon, Why Does Inequality Matter?, Winter 2019
  44. "Official Corruption," Legal Theory Workshop, University of Virginia Law School, Fall 2018
  45. "Saving Posterity from a Worse Fate," Colloquium in Legal and Political Philosophy, Queens University, CANADA, Fall 2018
  46. "Saving Posterity from a Worse Fate," Philosophy Colloquium, Princeton University, Fall 2018
  47. "Should AI Satisfy Preferences?" Interdisciplinary Seminar, Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence, UC Berkeley, Fall 2018
  48. Comment on Felix Koch, "Facilitative Reasons and Instrumental Value," Value in Practice: A Conference on the Philosophy of Joseph Raz, King's College London, UNITED KINGDOM, Summer 2018
  49. "Official Corruption," The Practical, the Political, and the Ethical Workshop, Institute for Philosophy, University of London, UNITED KINGDOM, Summer 2018
  50. "Relational Equality and Political Legitimacy," Association of Social and Political Philosophy Conference, Rome, ITALY, Summer 2018
  51. "The Complaints of Posterity," Intergenerational Justice and the Rights and Duties of Procreators Conference, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, SPAIN, Summer 2018
  52. "Official Corruption," Lee Lecture, All Souls College, Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM, Summer 2018
  53. "Official Corruption," London School of Economics, UNITED KINGDOM, Summer 2018
  54. "Official Corruption," DaGERS, UC Davis, Spring 2018
  55. "Official Corruption," Political Philosophy Colloquium, New York University, Spring 2018
  56. "What, If Anything, Is Wrong with Gerrymandering?" Ethics Forum, New York University, Spring 2018
  57. "Official Corruption," Conference at Worcester College, Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM, Spring 2018
  58. "Being Under the Power of Others," Colloquium, Center for Political Philosophy, University of Leiden, NETHERLANDS, Spring 2018
  59. "Official Corruption," Keynote Address, Society for the Theory of Ethics and Politics, Northwestern University, Spring 2018
  60. "Official Corruption," Keynote Address, Berlin, GERMANY, Winter 2017
  61. "Political Corruption," Chapel Hill Colloquium, University of North Carolina, Fall 2017
  62. "Pathologies of American Democracy" What Now? Conference, UC Berkeley, Fall 2017
  63. "Being Under the Power of Others," Political Theory Colloquium, University of Chicago, Spring 2017
  64. "Democratic Law as Medium and Message," Comment on Seana Shiffrin's Tanner Lectures, UC Berkeley, Spring 2017
  65. "The Immorality of Coercion," Regulation of Coercion Conference, University of British Columbia, CANADA Spring 2017
  66. "Democracy for Idealists," Kadish Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory, Joshua Cohen and Veronique Munoz-Darde, UC Berkeley, Fall 2016
  67. Nuffield Political Theory Workshop, Nuffield College, Oxford University, UNITED KINGDOM, Spring 2016 (cancelled)
  68. Political Theory Research Seminar, All Souls, Oxford University, UNITED KINGDOM, Spring 2016 (cancelled)
  69. Popper Talk, London School of Economics, UNITED KINGDOM, Spring 2016 (cancelled)
  70. Comte Lecture, London School of Economics, UNITED KINGDOM, Spring 2016 (cancelled)
  71. Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, Spring 2016 (cancelled)
  72. "What Makes Threats Wrong?" Political Theory Workshop, Stanford University, Spring 2016
  73. "What Makes Threats Wrong?" Colloquium, MIT, Spring 2016
  74. Work in Progress Talk, University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2016
  75. "A Liberalism Beyond Liberty?"Politics, Philosophy, and Economics Conference, Murphy Institute, Tulane University, Spring 2016
  76. "What Makes Threats Wrong?" Analytic Philosophy Symposium, University of Texas, Austin, Fall 2015
  77. "Political Rule and Its Discontents," Conference on Responsibility Beyond the State, Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life and the Program in Political Philosophy, Policy, and Law, University of Viriginia, Spring 2015
  78. "Being Under the Power of Others," Colloquium, University of Pittsburgh, Spring 2015
  79. "Corruption and Contribution," Panel on "Democracy in an Age of Inequality," with Ann Cudd, Derrick Darby, Lani Guinier, Samuel Issacharoff, and Rick Pildes, Pacific APA, Vancouver, Spring 2015
  80. Comments on Elizabeth Anderson's Tanner Lecture, "Private Government," Princeton University, Spring 2015
  81. Summary of Samuel Scheffler, Death and the Afterlife, Berkeley Social Ontology Group, University of California, Berkeley, Fall 2014
  82. "Being Under the Power of Others," Ethics, Law, and Public Policy Seminar, run by the Mexican Society of Applied Philosophy (SOMEFA), at the Department of Political Studies at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE), Mexico City, MEXICO, Fall 2014
  83. Comments on T.M. Scanlon, "Equality of Opportunity: A Normative Anatomy," Boalt School of Law, Fall 2014
  84. "Justifying the State," Colloquium, University of Arizona, Fall 2014
  85. "Being Under the Power of Others," Brown Bag Talk, Arizona Freedom Center, Fall 2014
  86. "Justifying the State," Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Conference, University of Missouri, Fall 2014
  87. Comments on A.J. Julius, Reconstruction, University of Toronto, CANADA, Summer, 2014
  88. "Justifying the State," Seminar, Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at the Murphy Institute, Tulane University, Spring, 2014
  89. "Rule Over None: Social Equality and the Value of Democracy," Colloquium, Arizona State University, Spring, 2014
  90. "Notes on Reasons and Rationality," Practical Reasoning Workshop, part of the Practical Thought and Good Action Research Network (funded by the DFG), University of Giessen, GERMANY, November 15-17, 2013
  91. Comments on Mark Schroeder, "The Price of Supervenience," Young Ethicists Network Workshop, Princeton University, Fall, 2013
  92. "Justifying the State," Dick Fallon and Tim Scanlon's Law and Philosophy Workshop, Harvard University, Fall, 2013
  93. "Justifying the State," Colloquium, Brown University, Fall, 2013
  94. "Love as Valuing a Relationship" and "Notes on Reasons and Rationality," Graduate Workshop, ANU, AUSTRALIA, Summer, 2013
  95. "Being Under the Power of Others," Justice and Democracy Conference, ANU, AUSTRALIA, Summer, 2013
  96. "Justifying the State," Graduate Workshop on Legitimacy with Massimo Renzo and Annie Stilz, ANU, AUSTRALIA, Summer 2013
  97. "Rule Over None: Social Equality and the Value of Democracy, Part 2" Seminar, ANU, AUSTRALIA, Summer 2013
  98. "Rule Over None: Social Equality and the Value of Democracy, Part 1," MSPT Seminar, ANU, AUSTRALIA, Summer 2013
  99. "Rule Over None: Social Equality and the Value of Democracy," Colloquium, UCLA, Spring, 2013
  100. "Justifying the State," Ethics Writing Seminar, UCLA, Spring, 2013
  101. "Rule Over None: Social Equality and the Value of Democracy," Colloquium, New York University, Spring 2013
  102. "Rule Over None: Social Equality and the Value of Democracy," Colloquium, University of Colorado, Boulder, Spring 2013
  103. "Rule Over None: Social Equality and the Value of Democracy," Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2013
  104. Participant, Reasons and Normativity Conference, NYU Abu Dhabi, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, Winter 2013
  105. Comments on Fred Neuhouser on Rousseau, The Ninth NYU Conference on Issues in Modern Philosophy, "Inequality," New York University, November 9-10, 2012
  106. Comments on Sarah McGrath, Young Ethicists Network Workshop, Princeton University, Fall 2012
  107. "On the Justification of State Force," Joseph Raz's seminar, Columbia University, Fall 2012
  108. "Rule Over None: Social Equality and the Value of Democracy," Understanding Equality Conference, University College London, UNITED KINGDOM, Spring 2012
  109. "Rule Over None: Social Equality and the Value of Democracy," Young Ethicists Network Workshop, Princeton University, Spring 2012
  110. "Rule Over None: Social Equality and the Value of Democracy," Keynote Lecture, Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, University of Puget Sound, Spring 2012
  111. "Comments on Leslie Green, 'Constituting the People'" Kadish Lecture, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2012
  112. "Rule Over None: Social Equality and the Value of Democracy," Darrell Royal Ethics Conference, University of Texas, Austin, Spring 2012
  113. "Rule Over None: Social Equality and the Value of Democracy," Colloquium, Ohio State University, Fall 2011
  114. "Instrumental Reasons," Colloquium, University of Nebraska, Fall 2011
  115. "Rule Over None: Social Equality and the Value of Democracy," Political Philosophy Colloquium, Princeton University, Fall 2011
  116. "Rule Over None: Social Equality and the Value of Democracy," Joseph Raz's seminar, Columbia University, Fall 2011
  117. "Which Relationships Justify Partiality?" Akeel Bilgrami and Jon Elster's Mellon Seminar, Columbia University, Fall 2011
  118. "Raz's Nexus," Workshop on Joseph Raz's Philosophy of Normativity, Centre for Law and Cosmopolitan Values, University of Antwerp, BELGIUM, April 2011
  119. "Instrumental Reasons," Session on "Instrumental Reason," American Philosophical Association Central Division, March 2011
  120. "Instrumental Reasons," Workshop on Reasons and Rational Choice, London School of Economics, UNITED KINGDOM, February 2011
  121. Master Class on Reasons and Rational Choice, London School of Economics, UNITED KINGDOM, February 2011
  122. "Toward a Principle of Instrumental Transmission," Colloquium, Harvard University, November 2010
  123. "Having a Say," Colloquium in Legal, Moral and Political Philosophy, New York University, fall 2010
  124. "Toward a Principle of Instrumental Transmission," Colloquium, University of Texas, Austin, October 2010
  125. "Toward a Principle of Instrumental Transmission," Colloquium, University of San Diego, May, 2010
  126. "Toward a Principle of Instrumental Transmission," Practical Philosopy Workshop, University of Chicago, April 30, 2010
  127. "The Explanation of Amour-Propre," Stanford Political Theory Workshop, March 5, 2010
  128. "Permissibility and Intention: Scanlon's Conjecture," Author Meets Critics Session on T.M. Scanlon, Moral Dimensions: Permissibility, Meaning, and Blame, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Convention, December 2009.
  129. "Percontations: Loving Wives and Countries," Bloggingheads diavlog with Simon Keller (Victoria University of Wellington), October 2009
  130. "Instrumental Transmission," Departmental Talk, Texas Tech University, October 2009
  131. "A Problem With If-Then Arguments," Public Lecture, Texas Tech University, October 2009
  132. "Comments on Munoz-Darde's 'Liberty's Chains'," Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Association, University of East Anglia, UNITED KINGDOM, July 2009
  133. "Ought: Between Objective and Subjective; Modus Ponens Invalid," Colloquium, Williams College, April 2009
  134. "Which Relationships Justify Partiality?" Legal Theory Workshop, Yale Law School, March 2009
  135. "Ought: Between Truth and Justification," Epistemic Normativity Workshop, Indiana University, December 2008
  136. "Ought: Between Objective and Subjective," Colloquium, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 2008
  137. Comments on Joseph Raz, "Reason, Reasons, and Rationality," Conference on Reason and Value, University of California, Santa Barbara, February 2008
  138. "Which Relationships?," Law and Philosophy Workshop, University of California, Berkeley, January 2008
  139. "The Myth of Practical Consistency," Law and Philosophy Workshop, University of Southern California, November 2007
  140. "The Myth of Practical Consistency," 2007 SPAWN on "Practical Reason," Syracuse University, July 2007
  141. "How Does Coherence Matter?," Moral Sciences Club, University of Cambridge, UNITED KINGDOM, April 2007
  142. "How Does Coherence Matter?," Aristotelian Society, London, UNITED KINGDOM, April 2007
  143. "How Does Coherence Matter?," Colloquium, University of Pittsburgh, April 2007
  144. "How Does Coherence Matter?" Colloquium, University of Southern California, March 2007
  145. "Why Be Disposed to Be Coherent?," Workshop on Value Theory and Epistemology, University of Stirling, UNITED KINGDOM, November 2006
  146. "Do Intentions Change Our Reasons?," Departmental Seminar, University of Stirling, UNITED KINGDOM, November 2006
  147. "Why Be Disposed to Be Coherent?," University of California, Irvine Colloquium, November 2006
  148. "Why Be Disposed to Be Coherent?," Hester Seminar on Agency and Action, Wake Forest University, September 2006
  149. "Do We Have Reason to Be Disposed to Be Rational?," Ohio State University/Maribor/Rijeka Conference, Dubrovnik, CROATIA, May 2006
  150. "Do We Have Reason to Be Disposed to Be Rational?," Workshop on the Normativity of Reasons, Universite de Fribourg, SWITZERLAND, May 2006
  151. "Why Have Consistent Beliefs?," In Pursuit of Reason: Engaging Joseph Raz on Reason and Value Conference, Institute of Philosophy, University of London, UNITED KINGDOM, May 2006
  152. "Why Have Consistent Intentions?," Moral Philosophy Seminar, University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM, May 2006
  153. "Why Have Consistent Intentions?," Workshop on Practical Reasons, University of Leeds, UNITED KINGDOM, May 2006
  154. "Why Have Consistent Intentions?," Bay Area Forum for Law and Ethics (BAFFLE), University of California, Berkeley, April 2006
  155. "Why Have Consistent Intentions?," Moral and Political Philosophy Group Talk, University of Toronto, CANADA, March 2006
  156. "Which Relationships?," Impartiality and Partiality in Ethics Conference, University of Reading, UNITED KINGDOM, December 2005
  157. "Does Intending the End Give One Reason to Take the Means?," Seminar in Ethics and Normative Theory (SENT), Stanford University, November 2005
  158. "Does Intending the End Give One Reason to Take the Means?," Seminar for Phronesis Analytic Philosophy Group, Universitat de Valencia, SPAIN, November 2005
  159. "Why Be Coherent?," Seminar for Phronesis Analytic Philosophy Group, Universitat de Valencia, SPAIN, November 2005
  160. "Why Be Coherent?," Forry and Micken Lecture at Amherst College, November 2005
  161. "Rationality and Reasons," ECAP 5 Conference, Lisbon, PORTUGAL, August 2005
  162. Comments on papers by Margaret Gilbert and Michael Pratt, Session on Promises, Pacific APA Convention, March 2005
  163. "Rationality and Reasons," Ohio State University, April 2005
  164. Comments on A. John Simmons, "Legitimacy and Territory," Fourth Annual Leadership Conference, Kennedy School of Government, March 2005
  165. "Rationality and Reasons," Moral Psychology Conference, Franklin and Marshall College, February 2005
  166. "Rationality and Reasons," University of California at Los Angeles, January 2005
  167. "Rationality and Reasons," University of California, Berkeley, January 2005
  168. "The Problems of Partiality," Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference, South Molle Island, AUSTRALIA, July 2004
  169. "What is Love?," Monash University, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA, July 2004
  170. "The Normativity of Rationality," Reasons and Rationality Conference, Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences, AUSTRALIA, June 2004
  171. "What is Love?," Phi Sigma Tau Honors Society, California State University at Chico, April 2004
  172. "Partiality and the Contours of the Moral," Brandeis University, October 2003
  173. "Partiality and Morality," University of California at Los Angeles, February, 2003
  174. "Partiality and Morality," Columbia University, January, 2003
  175. "Partiality and Morality," New York University, January, 2003
  176. "Scanlon on Promising," Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference, April 2002

Teaching

Awards:
Introductory lecture courses:
Intermediate lecture courses:
Seminars:
Dissertation committees in Philosophy and Logic and Methodology of Science:
  1. Japa Pallikkathayil, Harvard University, "Your Money or Your Life: Coercion in Personal and Political Contexts," filed 2008
  2. Fabrizio Cariani, "The Semantics of 'Ought' and the Unity of Modal Discourse," Logic and Methodology of Science, filed 2009
  3. Ian Schnee, "Reasoning from the Facts," filed 2010
  4. Ben Boudreaux, "Recent Immigration and the Nation: An Account of the Demands of Assimilation," filed 2011
  5. Andy Engen, "The Reactive Theory of Punishment," filed 2011
  6. Brian Berkey, "Against Moderate Morality: The Demands of Justice in an Unjust World," filed 2012
  7. Joseph Barnes, "A Platonic Account of Epistemic Value," filed 2012
  8. Julia Nefsky, "The Morality of Collective Harm," filed 2012
  9. Erich Matthes, "Engaging with the Past: Essays on History, Value, and Practical Reason," filed 2013
  10. Justin Bledin, "Logic Informed," Logic and Methodology of Science, filed 2013
  11. Max Gee, "Rationality and Expected Utility," filed 2015
  12. Lindsay Crawford, "Epistemic Obligation in Perspective," filed 2015
  13. Julian Jonker, "In Defense of Directed Duties," filed 2017
  14. Jeffrey Kaplan, "Weightless Normativity: A Theory of Law, Language, and More," filed 2018
  15. Nick French, "Moral Obligation, Mutual Recognition, and Our Reasons to be Moral," filed 2020
  16. Kirsten Pickering, "Why Answer the Epistemic Challenge?" filed 2020
  17. Dan Khokhar, "Address and Response: The Normativity of Requesting, Begging, and Commanding," filed 2022
  18. Scott Casleton
  19. Christian Nakazawa
  20. Virginia Foggo
  21. James Evershed
  22. Luca Passi
Dissertation committees as external member:
  1. Carla Yumatle, "Philosophical Presuppositions of Liberal Democracy," Political Science, filed 2010
  2. Stephen Galoob, "A Liberal Theory of Reparation," Jurisprudence and Social Policy, filed 2014
  3. Adam Hill, "A Behavioral Approach to Contemporary Electoral Accountability," Jurisprudence and Social Policy, filed 2016
  4. Amin Ebrahimi Afrouzi, "Why Act Legally?" Jurisprudence and Social Policy, filed 2022
Qualifying exams in philosophy:
  1. Mike Titelbaum, 2005
  2. Tamar Lando, 2007
  3. Markus Kohl, 2007
  4. Julia Nefsky, 2008
  5. Justin Bledin, 2008
  6. Erin Beeghly, 2009
  7. Eugene Chislenko, 2009
  8. Stephen Thurman, 2010
  9. Max Gee, 2010
  10. Peter Epstein, 2010
  11. Katie Mantoan, 2011
  12. Kirsten Pickering, 2012
  13. Jeff Kaplan, 2013
  14. Dan Khokhar, 2016
  15. Ravit Dotan, 2017
  16. Blake Harper, 2018
  17. Scott Casleton, 2019
  18. Monika Chao, 2021
  19. Jes Heppler, 2021
  20. Christian Nakazawa, 2021
  21. Daniel Proske, 2022
  22. Virginia Foggo, 2023
  23. James Evershed, 2023
  24. Susanna McGrew
  25. Megan Wu
Qualifying exams as external member:
  1. Richard Ashcroft, Political Science, 2010
  2. Athmeya Jayaram, Political Science, 2010
  3. Stephen Galoob, Jurisprudence and Social Policy, 2010
  4. Luke Haqq, Jurisprudence and Social Policy, 2011
  5. Adam Hill, Jurisprudence and Social Policy, 2011
  6. Amin Afrouzi, Jurisprudence and Social Policy, 2019
  7. Joel Sati, Jurisprudence and Social Policy, 2019

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